I went to great lengths to avoid shopping in the post-thanksgiving hordes. You couldn’t pay me to go shopping on Black Friday.
Or at least that is what I thought.
Until I got an email from damned Pottery Barn Outlet saying their entire store is 40% off beginning at midnight Thanksgiving night/Friday morning.
40% off is a lot off.
Especially because there were some things I was going to buy there anyway.
40% is a lot off.
Even though PBO is about a 50 minute drive away.
If I spent only $200, I could get $350 worth of stuff. It is kind of like they are paying me to make the drive.
Lucky for me, I am usually up until about 1:00 a.m. anyway. Even with the 50 minute drive, I won’t be too late getting to bed.
I am a sucker.
A big fat sucker.
I am off to pre-shop at PB online. That way I can sprint directly for the stuff I want.
SUCKER. That is what it says on my forehead.
Yep, you’re a sucker. They would have to be giving free stuff away to get me out shopping tomorrow. It is just insane!
Oooh, Pottery Barn. Yeah, I’d sit up and take notice for a sale of their stuff if I were nearby. They sent us a wonderful coupon for 15% off stuff, because we had moved…I was all eager, until I read the fine print, which was that you couldn’t use it online. The nearest store is about 2000 miles away from me. Bah.
Have fun!
I thought I was going to avoid Black Friday as well, but then I saw a few things I was going to buy anyway and the prices in the ads were so good. Could be trouble.
P.S. You are soooo lucky to live near a Pottery Barn Outlet. (Jealous!)
We live five minutes from a PB outlet, and got suckered in on one of their 40% off sales last month. The 40% off was off the retail price, not the normal outlet prices (usually about 30% or more off retail). So, just go knowing that might be the case. If that’s what you’re expecting, happy hunting! That place is usually my version of a treasure hunt.
However, I was kinda cranky about The Big Sale because when we bought our house I was the queen of the PB outlet — I got a PB trunk for $39 instead of $500, a West Elm Overlapping Squares daybed for $119 instead of $399, WE king size low platform bed for $184 instead of $660, and so. much. more. for about 1/4 the cost of what we’d budgeted. So, compared to that, the big sale last month was infuriating, as the nightstands I’d gotten for $24 each were now priced at $130 each AFTER the 40% discount.
However, I will probably go check out the PB outlet tomorrow, since my husband has put some more Le Creuset cookware on his wishlist.
I think we all think “there’s no way” until we find out Our Store is the one holding the sales
Then you are no longer a sucker, you are suddenly a savvy shopper. Just keep telling that to yourself as you use whatever you can grab to battle back the hordes to reach what you want: you are a savvy shopper.
(Actually, I think pre-shopping online that way is brilliant. That way you won’t spend as much time wavering between this, that and the other; you’ll just know straight off what you’re heading for. Quite clever, really)
Sadly there was no 40% off sale at Spin Ceramics. Actually, it didn’t matter. Thanks for the reminder. It was so worth sitting in traffic for an hour on the way back. Tomorrow you must let us know what bounty you returned home with.
Ooooh! Vicarious shopping excitement!! Please show us what you bought!
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